RevGalBlogPals Friday Five

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Festive Foods Friday Five

1. Favorite cookie/candy/baked good without which, it's just not Christmas.

Let's do all three for good measure.
Cookie: homemade with the recipe from my childhood neighbor Taffy. It takes all day, but it's worth it.
Candy: chocolate, anything chocolate. Lately it's been dark chocolate.
Baked good: Pumpkin gingerbread, yum.
Bonus Christmas breakfast food: Little Smokies.....

2. Do you do a fancy dinner on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, both, or neither? (Optional: with whom will you gather around the table this year?)

With two churches between us, and three services this year, there is no fancy eating. A pick-up Christmas buffet sometime on the 25th is becoming a family tradition, though. This year it will be just the four of us, all day on the 25th. I am so looking forward to going nowhere.

3. Evaluate one or more of the holiday beverage trifecta: hot chocolate, wassail, egg nog.

No wassail for me, but the other two are good.

4. Candy canes: do you like all the new-fangled flavors or are you a peppermint purist?

There are new flavors? Where have I been?

5. Have you ever actually had figgy pudding? And is it really so good that people will refuse to leave until they are served it?

Never had it, unless I ate some the semester I spent in England. But there was a fair amount of lager consumed then so I might not remember.....

Edited to add: Well, I am APPALLED with myself that I forgot to include a question about the crown prince of holiday foods--the fruitcake. Feel free to add your thoughts on this most polarizing holiday confection.

Not for me. Don't like the gummy fruit things. Mr. Incredible has been eating some made by a parishioner this week, though, and I think he said the ingredients for it cost about $70.